Valley Emperor

In the South African port, Alvin and the others are not the only pirates. In fact, no one knows that there are at least seven or eight pirates in the South African port at this moment.

Unfortunately, the target that Alvin and the others were targeting, the Italian merchant ship Allan, on the surface, was just a heavy and unprotected carat merchant ship, and advertised that it saved sailing costs, and did not carry a large number of sailors, but no one did. Knowing that the ship actually carried twice as many sailors as the filling merchant ships.

When they returned, they didn't carry a lot of cargo at all, because they were poorer than Alvin and the others, they came empty, and they were destined to be empty.

When they came to South Africa port this time, the only way to make a profit was to loot.

As for the captain and others in the South African port trade area, they are just disguising themselves and reducing others' defenses against them. In fact, they operate in the trade area for the same purpose as Baier and the others. Just to find a big fat sheep.

In addition to the two pirate ships, the Alvin and the Allen, there are actually at least five groups of pirates active in the South African port, and they basically have the same characteristics.

That is, there are many people, but there is no money to purchase too many Datang goods in the South African port. At most, they are just buying a few Datang products.

In addition, some ships have also been specially modified, or they are simply schooners commonly used by pirates.

The activity of these pirates in the South African port naturally attracted the attention of the official yamen of the South African Port of Datang Xiyu, and the people of the South African City Police Department had actually mastered these pirates for a long time.

However, these pirates stayed in the South African port honestly, and one by one, they were generous and contributed a lot of income to the local area of ​​South Africa.

In addition, these pirates did not loot in the waters of South Africa, and they were not pirates active in Youyang. They were generally pirates active in the Atlantic Ocean, and they robbed merchant ships in Europe and North Africa, so Datang talents were too lazy to care. Woolen cloth.

The South African Police Service just monitored them secretly, and after reporting the situation to the African Squadron, they didn't care.

As for the fox, they obviously have no interest in helping the Portuguese clear the pirates off the coast of West Africa.

Anyway, Datang's goods were sold in South Africa. Whether it can be successfully transported back to Europe for sale is a matter for European businessmen. Anyway, Datang's goods have been sold and the money has been received. As for these goods It's none of their business whether it ends up in the European market through the hands of merchants or pirates.

According to the armistice agreement reached between Datang and Portugal, the Portuguese recognized the special rights and interests of the Tang Dynasty along the coast of Youyang, and promised not to cross the eastern coast of Africa, You, and Nanyang Islands for colonization.

Similarly, the Datang Empire also recognized the special rights and interests of the Portuguese on the west coast of Africa to a certain extent, and promised not to cross the Cape of Good Hope and colonize the west coast of Africa.

Of course, given the urgency of the Tang Empire, the so-called contracts and agreements are just a piece of tissue paper in their eyes. When they need to be used, they are used to wipe their buttocks, and they are thrown away after they have been wiped.

The Tang Empire recognized the special rights and interests of the Portuguese on the west coast of Africa, only because the Tang Empire could not colonize the west coast of Africa for a while.

This has just swallowed the entire Southeast Asia and the eastern coast of Africa and Africa. This is a huge area. No matter what the Datang Empire is, it must first consolidate its rule and colonization in the above-mentioned areas before talking about other things.

Therefore, at the top of the empire, the overseas work in the next few years will mainly focus on the localization of Fusang and the localization of Nanyang, and continue to expand the influence and the scale of the colonies in Yu, West Asia, and the eastern coast of Africa, and strive to bring all the coastal areas of Yuyang into become an empire's colony.

In addition, there is an important work, that is, the colonization of North America.

In recent years, with the expansion of the colonial activities of Xinjinshan, many rich products have been discovered in many areas of North America, especially the many gold and silver mines there, which have attracted the attention of a group of powerful people in the Datang Empire. very.

The powerful people behind many trading companies have already begun to agitate, and the empire will use large-scale immigration to North America to lay the foundation for the future localization of the Americas.

In this environment, in fact, the upper echelons of the empire are not interested in controlling the west coast of Africa for the time being. As long as the European trade line can be opened up, the goods of the empire can continue to pass through the transit station of South Africa, and then directly trade with many European merchants. Finally, it was imported into the European market. In fact, the Datang Empire did not mind letting the Portuguese host the west coast of Africa for the time being.

Why escrow?

Because sooner or later the west coast of Africa will be imperial, no doubt about that.

The Tang Empire's desire for territory is even greater than that of the polar bears of later generations!

Regardless of the cost, the death and injury expand the territory on a global scale. For the Holy Son of Heaven, Li Xuan, it is to satisfy the bad taste in his heart, and by the way, let himself become famous for eternity and become the first person in China and even the world.

However, for all classes of the empire, the expansion on a global scale is also a feast.

The military can continue to make military achievements, then obtain titles, and then obtain fiefs, becoming a very rare real noble in the Huaxia region, even if it only has the right to tax dividends, but has no government and military power, but it is also a large fief.

For civil servants, they are not only officials, but also capitalists.

Because 90% of the civil servants belonged to the gentry class, and the gentry class in today's Datang Empire not only held a large amount of land, but actually controlled a large amount of industrial and commercial assets.

External expansion, plundering raw materials, and obtaining the market for products, for the capital behind many officials, is the time to make a lot of profits.

For ordinary people, practitioners in most industries can benefit from the development of industry. For workers, their wages are slowly rising, their incomes are higher, and their lives are better.

For farmers, after people's income has generally increased, the prices of grain and other agricultural products are also gradually rising. Datang's Grain Corporation has continuously raised the guidance price of grain in recent years, and farmers' income has been increased to a certain extent. increase.

In addition, the cultivation of many cash crops also makes farmers' income more abundant.

Finally, large-scale overseas immigration allows farmers to obtain land that is permanently theirs and can be passed down from generation to generation. It is no longer a dream, but something that you can achieve as long as you go overseas to immigrate.

At present, the empire still maintains an encouraging attitude towards overseas immigrants. As long as they are willing to immigrate overseas, they will grant land free of charge.

Immigrants to some areas will even provide the most basic production and living materials for free.

The last big regulation on a global scale is almost a feast for the entire empire from top to bottom!

Therefore, the empire is very keen on expansion. Although there is no plan to attack the west coast of Africa for the time being, it is only temporary.

When the empire has established a stable and effective rule in the coastal areas of Youyang, and has established a firm foothold in North America, it will naturally turn its attention to the west coast of Africa, and even Europe.

But that is the future. Now, the empire recognizes the special rights and interests of the Portuguese on the west coast of Africa. Datang Fox has obtained the African squadron, and its daily cruises are limited to the southern waters of Africa, and will not go deep into the Atlantic Ocean. , especially the seas controlled by the Portuguese.

Similarly, although Datang has not reached any formal agreement on the division of spheres of influence with the Spaniards, they have formed a certain tacit understanding based on the exchanges between the two countries over the years.

The Spaniards recognized the special rights and interests of the Datang Empire in the Central Pacific, Western Pacific, Youyang and other waters, and also acquiesced to Datang to establish colonies on the western coast of North America.

In exchange, the Datang Empire also recognized the scope of the Spanish's strength in Mexico, South America and other regions.

This kind of tacit understanding, neither side has stated clearly, but they have been doing this all these years. Datang has established several other colonial strongholds in North America relying on Xinjinshan, but it has not entered the Mexican area.

The Spaniards also tacitly stopped their expansion on the western coast of North America, but instead expanded to the eastern coast of North America and the western coast of South America, and tried to penetrate deeper into the interior of South America.

Looking at the contemporary colonial pattern, it is basically the three kingdoms of the Tang Empire, Spain, and the Portuguese.

The Datang Empire controls all areas along the coast of Youyang, including Burma, You Peninsula, West Asia, the east coast of Africa, southern Africa, and all the islands of Youyang~www.wuxiaspot.com~ the central and western coasts of the Pacific Ocean and islands, including The Nanyang Islands, the Fusang Islands, Australia, and almost all the islands in the Pacific Ocean, even the islands that have not yet been discovered, are theoretically within the sphere of influence of the Tang Dynasty.

Parts of North America, mainly the western part of North America along the pot, north of Mexico.

As for the Spaniards, they controlled the southern part of North America, part of the eastern region along the jug, Central America, the northern part of South America, and the central and northern part of the western coast of South America.

The Portuguese controlled most of the western coastal areas of Africa, the central area of ​​the eastern coast of South America, which is the Brazil area of ​​later generations, and almost all the islands in the Atlantic Ocean were basically controlled by the Portuguese.

As for European countries such as England, the Netherlands, and even France, the Crab Island country basically has no colonies overseas, and some are at most one or two colonial ports, which are generally located on the west coast of Africa and the eastern coast of North America.

Of course, this only refers to overseas colonization dominated by maritime power, and does not say anything about comprehensive national integrity.

If you really want to compete for comprehensive strength, the monster of the Datang Empire is naturally not controversial.

But Spain and Portugal?

The Tatars said that Spain and Portugal would go together. Not only that, but the Tatars could let them have one more hand. Even so, the Tatars had a hundred confidence that they would be scum!

Of course, the premise is to let the Tatars to Europe!

But are the Tatars still far from Europe?

Actually it's not far!

In October of the twenty-sixth year of Xuanping, 50,000 Tatar troops came to Moscow!

The Tatars came to Moscow, and the news spread all over Europe like wings, and then caused panic throughout Europe!